Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30601
Abstract
Eighty-three per cent of 200 different freshly isolated cultures of
Staphylococcus epidermidis
produced beta lactamase. Growth in the presence of acridine orange or ethidium bromide or growth at 44 C resulted in a high frequency of loss of the beta lactamase genes in some strains of
S. epidermidis
. The relationship between beta-lactamase production and resistance to mercuric, cadmium and arsenate ions differed from that observed in
Staphylococcus aureus
. It is postulated that the genes for beta lactamase in certain strains of
S. epidermidis
are on a plasmid.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine
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12 articles.
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